StyleXP messes up my desktop icons!

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Bobby D wrote:
> Strange, but true. When I change visual styles (not themes) with
> StyleXP, it changes some of my icons, such as the recycle bin.
> Something tells me it shouldn`t do that with visual styles. But
> anyway, I don`t want to know how to get my icons back, I can figure
> that one out. I want to know how to PREVENT my icons from being
> changed by a rogue program again in the future. I tried adding a
> read-only attribute to the icon, but it seems you can`t do that. I
> tried 3rd party programs which stay resident and whose sole purpose is
> to prevent changes to your desktop icons, such as Easy Desktop Saver.
> It didn`t work. All it took was the `"Clouds" visual style to change
> the desktop icons again. Sure kept my wallpaper locked though....
>
> Can some genius please tell me how to prevent changes to my carefully
> designed icon sets?

How is it a rogue problem when you have to install the third party "StyleXP"
in order to use it? heh

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"Shenan Stanley" <news_helper@hushmail.com> wrote in message news:<OB$Mg#MdEHA.2504@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl>...
> Bobby D wrote:
> > Strange, but true. When I change visual styles (not themes) with
> > StyleXP, it changes some of my icons, such as the recycle bin.
> > Something tells me it shouldn`t do that with visual styles. But
> > anyway, I don`t want to know how to get my icons back, I can figure
> > that one out. I want to know how to PREVENT my icons from being
> > changed by a rogue program again in the future. I tried adding a
> > read-only attribute to the icon, but it seems you can`t do that. I
> > tried 3rd party programs which stay resident and whose sole purpose is
> > to prevent changes to your desktop icons, such as Easy Desktop Saver.
> > It didn`t work. All it took was the `"Clouds" visual style to change
> > the desktop icons again. Sure kept my wallpaper locked though....
> >
> > Can some genius please tell me how to prevent changes to my carefully
> > designed icon sets?
>
> How is it a rogue problem when you have to install the third party "StyleXP"
> in order to use it? heh

Is there really no one out there that knows how to prevent a program
from changing your XP icons?
>
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> <- Shenan ->

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Bobby D wrote:
> Strange, but true. When I change visual styles (not themes) with
> StyleXP, it changes some of my icons, such as the recycle bin.
> Something tells me it shouldn`t do that with visual styles. But
> anyway, I don`t want to know how to get my icons back, I can figure
> that one out. I want to know how to PREVENT my icons from being
> changed by a rogue program again in the future. I tried adding a
> read-only attribute to the icon, but it seems you can`t do that. I
> tried 3rd party programs which stay resident and whose sole purpose
> is to prevent changes to your desktop icons, such as Easy Desktop
> Saver. It didn`t work. All it took was the `"Clouds" visual style
> to change the desktop icons again. Sure kept my wallpaper locked
> though....
>
> Can some genius please tell me how to prevent changes to my
> carefully designed icon sets?

Shenan Stanley wrote:
> How is it a rogue problem when you have to install the third party
> "StyleXP" in order to use it? heh

Bobby D wrote:
> Is there really no one out there that knows how to prevent a program
> from changing your XP icons?

If you know what registry key corresponds to the icons of the ones in
question (ie: Recycle Bin, My Computer, My Netowrk Places, My Documents,
etc..) then you can go and lock these down by changing the permissions on
the registry values in such a way that even you cannot change them.

I know of no particular applications that watches for rogue processes (as
you call *your* installation of StyleXP) to change the look of your icons.
I have never seen my icons dynamically change either.. Even if I used soime
third party application on purpose like StyleXP, I specified everything I
could to make sure my look was as I wanted it.

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